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Platforms

Test and experimentation platforms

The concept of test platform is at the centre of the Images et Réseaux cluster's strategy. It is essential for manufacturers and scientists to have access to the means of evaluating technical innovations as well as user acceptance.

Test platform disposal allows technical validation and assessment of user acceptance while pooling resources and associated costs. Besides, test platform interconnections increase exponentially the possibilities for accessing various equipment and panels of users.

The Images et Réseaux cluster is leading a regional test platform project, known as ImaginLab, and it collaborates to international testbed interconnection projects. The Cluster's territory has also been labeled as a Living Lab by the European Union.
 

IM@G'in Lab

The ImaginLab platform opens up opportunities for experimentation on a regional and international scale

 

LEVIER, a European Living Lab in Brittany and Pays de la Loire
Member of network of Living Labs

The regions of Brittany and Pays de la Loire were jointly awarded the Living Lab label in October 2007 by the European Union. This Living Lab has been named LEVIER. It is part of a network of more than 50 Living Labs in Europe. LEVIER is coordinated by the Images et Réseaux cluster with the support of the scientific interest grouping M@rsouin. This grouping brings together several social and human science research teams to study uses in the ICT field.
The Living Lab concept places end users at the center of the R&D process, also known as user-centric design. The participation of users from the outset and then all through the process allows designers to understand what users expect and to respond accordingly.
LEVIER relies on the regional technological platform ImaginLab that is currently under development.

ImaginLab, a regional experimentation platform

ImaginLab is an open platform designed for validation, integration and interoperability tests, as well as experimentation on services and innovating technologies on fixed and mobile networks.

The ImaginLab platform is based on three complementary technological sub-platforms located in the area:

  • The Internet of the future sub-platform, in Lannion. This is based on a high and very high bandwidth infrastructure connected to a network core using IMS (IP Multimedia Subsystem) technology.
  • The high-speed wireless sub-platform in Brest. This is based on a WiMAX and FTTA high-speed wireless infrastructure.
  • The media and mobility sub-platform. This is based on a hertzian infrastructure of mobile personal television signal broadcasting, using the DVB-H and DVB-SH standards.

ImaginLab constitutes a genuinely seamless region-wide network, potentially connected to other equivalent platforms in Europe.
 

Panlab: a federation of testbeds in Europe
Panlab's logo

The Images et Réseaux cluster is one of the contributors to the Panlab (Pan European Laboratory) project. It aims to interconnect a number of test platforms located throughout Europe to form a veritable pan-European laboratory. Panlab is supported by the European Commission.

Bretagne 3D: an operational platform, open to applications
Bretagne 3D

The Bretagne 3D platform provides manufacturers and scientists with a navigation application that handles a very accurate 3D model of the whole of Brittany. This model was created on the basis of a geographical data set supplied by IGN (Institut géographique national - French national cartographical organization). Bretagne 3D can be used for requirement or feasibility studies, or for a practical study of the added value provided by 3D to an existing solution.

Bretagne 3D is the result of a Images et Réseaux project conducted by the Archividéo and France Télécom Companies. Any structure interested by the development of an application using this 3D navigation platform, whether a member of this Cluster or not, should contact the Cluster's technical management.